Sony Xperia sola goes official with a 1 GHz dual-core CPU

13 March, 2012
It what Sony calls "floating touch" - you can interact with the screen without touching it.

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  • hapaul
  • t7P
  • 28 Jan 2013

this phone is awesome i love it
the design picture its good

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    • kkadin
    • P}v
    • 10 Sep 2012

    Anonymous, 15 Mar 2012dude, how useful is it to point your mouse over an element ... morewhat's any difference? with or without hover function.
    we are already moving finger above screen before tab it.

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      • Vaibhav
      • 2@1
      • 26 Aug 2012

      When Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 Come for XPERIA SOLA ?

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        • Anonymous
        • uvg
        • 08 May 2012

        i love sony

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          • AdamBoy64
          • Fv4
          • 15 Mar 2012

          Anonymous, 15 Mar 2012dude, how useful is it to point your mouse over an element ... more
          The difference between the mouse and this hover touch is that, with a mouse you don't need to move the mouse to click a button. Movement and clicking (or activating) are independent of the other.

          With hover touch, they aren't. You'll be moving while you're trying to 'activate' a command. Perhaps if you could use it two handed, that would eliminate that issue.

          I hope it goes well though - for Sony's sake.

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            • fransis
            • PUP
            • 15 Mar 2012

            i want know about new genration phone

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              • Anonymous
              • v0q
              • 15 Mar 2012

              AdamBoy64, 14 Mar 2012Nah, not trolling, I just don't see the point. You can hig... moredude, how useful is it to point your mouse over an element in the screen ? hover touch is as useful as that.

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                • Anonymous
                • v0q
                • 15 Mar 2012

                AdamBoy64, 14 Mar 2012Nah, not trolling, I just don't see the point. You can hig... moreGoogle just introduced an API in ICS for development of apps, or probably games, to respond on floating touches. i see hover touch in gaming. seems really cool.

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                  • Venkat89
                  • PTi
                  • 15 Mar 2012

                  Everything about this phone seems perfect for me, except the RAM size :( could've been 1 gb ..

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                    • AdamBoy64
                    • Fv4
                    • 14 Mar 2012

                    RG, 14 Mar 2012Are you saying that moving your finger on top of the displa... moreNah, not trolling, I just don't see the point.
                    You can highlight text and that by hovering, and that's good and all.

                    When you move your finger to the screen to press a button, you'd need to be careful not to highlight anything else while you're moving your finger to the screen. Maybe with two hands that wouldn't be a problem..

                    But it seems with this tech you still need to touch the screen anyway.. So, seems a bit useless to me.

                    Thanks for your comments.

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                      • jinga
                      • N9@
                      • 14 Mar 2012

                      sweet phone..., still expecting sony amplifiers in any of the xperia range.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • pJt
                        • 14 Mar 2012

                        Anonymous, 13 Mar 2012the status LED (white strip) is right under the "eleva... moreU da man! thanks

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                          • Anonymous
                          • p%n
                          • 14 Mar 2012

                          Watch out it will be the iReality screen next week with Apple runnng to the nearest court room claiming they created it!

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                            • RG
                            • 3Sw
                            • 14 Mar 2012

                            AdamBoy64, 13 Mar 2012'Hover touch' seems like a bad idea. It'll be incredibly ea... moreAre you saying that moving your finger on top of the display with closely positioned links is better?! :))))))
                            That`s what I call trolling.

                            FloatingTouch works like a charm, there is some real life reviews already, just wach them before you denied it`s efficiency.
                            With ICS this tech will be incorporated deeper into the UI and with more developers into it this could easily become a must have tech. Well it could stay as gimmick as well, we`ll see...

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                              • Anonymous
                              • tht
                              • 14 Mar 2012

                              The design itself looks alike sony's 1st xperia such as S, P or U
                              Bored

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                                • Maz
                                • IaH
                                • 14 Mar 2012

                                Looks to be a gorgeous phone but this hover thingo but be a too complicated. ofcoarse il be eager to try it out for myself and hope i get proved wrong becoz the idea opens up a whole new world of apps.

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                                  • AnonD-13983
                                  • PZT
                                  • 14 Mar 2012

                                  i dont see how you could "easily activate things by mistake" when hovering only acts as a cursor highlighting items on the screen, you still will need to touch the screen to click, this hovering could indeed revolutionize touch screens.

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • Mfx
                                    • 14 Mar 2012

                                    AdamBoy64, 13 Mar 2012'Hover touch' seems like a bad idea. It'll be incredibly ea... moreThe "hover touch" is used only for scrolling webpages, to actually click on a link you have to tap the screen, it's almost like using a mouse on desktop which is great.

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                                      • xperia
                                      • v0q
                                      • 14 Mar 2012

                                      whatever but cool!

                                      Sony has really great designs, and great ideas as well!